Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-08 Thread shawn wilson
i agree, the thinkpad is solid. personally, i got a macbook pro because i wanted 2x+ the battery that even the best thinkpad could offer. however, this isn't linux (bsd at best). i think that linux should work with most any laptop hardware with the exception of the new video cards that switch betw

Re: Server freezing under heavy cpu / disk / network load

2011-02-08 Thread shawn wilson
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 2:06 AM, Davide Mirtillo wrote: > Il 08/02/2011 15:11, Stan Hoeppner ha scritto: > >> I am currently running squeeze 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem. The machine has > > > > Why run the 32bit distro with the bigmem kernel on an AMD64 box? And why > run > > the bigmem kernel on a machin

Re: PHP and memory_limit

2011-02-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4d5136c9.3000...@jamtport.se>, Jonas Mixter wrote: >--- Example output from Debian machines --- ># php ./mem_test >PHP memory limit before imagecreatetruecolor(): 32M >PHP memory usage before imagecreatetruecolor(): 58280 bytes >Process memory usage before imagecreatetruecolor(): 6 MB > >Creati

Re: Server freezing under heavy cpu / disk / network load

2011-02-08 Thread Davide Mirtillo
Il 08/02/2011 15:11, Stan Hoeppner ha scritto: >> I am currently running squeeze 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem. The machine has > > Why run the 32bit distro with the bigmem kernel on an AMD64 box? And why run > the bigmem kernel on a machine with only 1 GB RAM? The bigmem kernel is only > needed for PAE,

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-08 Thread Bob
On 02/09/2011 11:21 AM, Kumar Appaiah wrote: On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 03:09:23PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: The IBM ThinkPads were always solid equipment and all of the hardware was supported very well. They did what you expected a laptop to do in that all of the peripherals worked with Linux driv

Re: PHP and memory_limit

2011-02-08 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Jonas Mixter put forth on 2/8/2011 9:56 AM: >> I'd say you should hit a PHP mailing list or IRC channel. They'll likely >> know >> this stuff better than anyone here. > This seems to be related to Debian since this works as expected in Ubuntu > (don't > know the version) with PHP 5.2.14 and on

Re: which version for intel chipset 64bit

2011-02-08 Thread Bret Busby
Could the Release Notes include a component that matches CPU model with appropriate distribution version? Many 64 bit CPU's exist, but it can be difficult to determine whether they should have the i386 (which no longer works with the i386, from the Release Notes, and so should be renamed) or

Re: Firware drivers?

2011-02-08 Thread Mark
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Rob Owens wrote: > > I just upgraded my son's laptop. It uses the ipw2x00 firmware for his > wireless card. The upgrade did not change that. I followed the release > notes for the most part. Specifically: > > apt-get update && apt-get upgrade (on Lenny) > chang

Re: Installing Debian on USB sticks.

2011-02-08 Thread Bob
On 02/09/2011 04:29 AM, James Allsopp wrote: Hi, Recently I placed the netinst i386 debian installer on an old USB stick using: zcat boot.img.gz> /dev/sdc and I've installed one machine using it. However yesterday I was trying to install debian itself on a USB stick and the installer found it c

Re: KPackage

2011-02-08 Thread teddieeb
Try Synaptic ;) Works fine even on KDE systems, is better organized, offers better search, ... ... no I don't get payed for this writing :D KPackage is not worth loosing a word about it. Just *imho* of cause ;) kind regards Gero I personally never liked synaptic, but then that's why I h

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-08 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Ma, 08 feb 11, 10:51:12, Jimmy Johnson wrote: hamed hosseini wrote: i want buy labtop,tell me best labtop for debian os? 900$-1300$ "my choice is lenovo labtop" Not kidding, is labtop a real word? Does this count? http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lab

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-08 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 03:09:23PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > The IBM ThinkPads were always solid equipment and all of the hardware > was supported very well. They did what you expected a laptop to do in > that all of the peripherals worked with Linux drivers. Networking > worked with native driv

Re: Build Deb install then move it

2011-02-08 Thread Harry Putnam
Andrew Reid writes: > On Saturday 05 February 2011 23:01:56 Harry Putnam wrote: > >> Once all that is working wouldn't I be able to move the whole thing >> onto the existing linux desktop by doing a network install of debian, >> formatting whatever space then use dd or maybe something more modern

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-08 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 15:23 Tue 08 Feb, Celejar (cele...@gmail.com) wrote: > I'm curious - everyone has always seemed to love ThinkPads, but I've > never understood what exactly makes them so popular. I'm not > disagreeing or challenging - I've never used one, and I just want to > understand why everyone swears by

Re: Multimedia Lenny is History!

2011-02-08 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 02:19:22PM -0800, freeman wrote: > As of Monday: > > http://debian-multimedia.org/ > Ah, that explains the trouble I've been having with my upgrading. Thanks for the post. -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: Firware drivers?

2011-02-08 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 09:09:20AM -0800, Mark wrote: > On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 7:36 AM, Camaleón wrote: > > > On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 14:51:00 +0100, Geronimo wrote: > > > > (...) > > > > > Now its time, to become more pragmatic, which means, debian should offer > > > installation media, that include

Re: Sticking with Lenny

2011-02-08 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 5:55 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Ma, 08 feb 11, 14:28:34, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> In <20110208174911.GT6759@think.homelan>, Andrei Popescu wrote: >> > >> >you can run >> > >> >    aptitude search ~S~i~Astable >> > >> >to get the list of packages from stable/squee

Re: KPackage

2011-02-08 Thread lrhorer
Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Lu, 07 feb 11, 18:45:31, lrhorer wrote: >> >> For whatever reason, someone has decided to remove KPackage from the >> Debian distro. 'Really bad idea, if you ask me. Anyway, when I > > AFAIU, kpackage lacks support for some important things needed by apt. An

Re: KPackage

2011-02-08 Thread lrhorer
Geronimo wrote: > Hello, > > lrhorer wrote: >> For whatever reason, someone has decided to remove KPackage from the >> Debian distro. 'Really bad idea, if you ask me. > > Great idea - if you ask me :) > >> Is there a good way to get KPackage back onto the other system? Is >> there some way we

Re: Installing Debian on USB sticks.

2011-02-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma, 08 feb 11, 20:29:21, James Allsopp wrote: > Hi, > Recently I placed the netinst i386 debian installer on an old USB stick > using: > zcat boot.img.gz > /dev/sdc > > and I've installed one machine using it. However yesterday I was trying > to install debian itself on a USB stick and the inst

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Re: Sticking with Lenny

2011-02-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma, 08 feb 11, 14:28:34, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <20110208174911.GT6759@think.homelan>, Andrei Popescu wrote: > >you can run > > > >aptitude search ~S~i~Astable > > > >to get the list of packages from stable/squeeze. > > Depends. The argument of ~A ("stable" in this case) is use

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma, 08 feb 11, 15:09:23, Bob Proulx wrote: > Celejar wrote: > > I'm curious - everyone has always seemed to love ThinkPads, but I've > > never understood what exactly makes them so popular. I'm not > > disagreeing or challenging - I've never used one, and I just want to > > understand why every

Re: docx, openoffice, squeeze

2011-02-08 Thread Greg Madden
On Tuesday 08 February 2011 11:50:23 am Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 20:12:32 +, Lisi wrote: > > On Tuesday 08 February 2011 19:33:17 Ron Johnson wrote: > >> LibreOffice is nothing more than the renamed OOo v3.3. > > > > No, Ron, that isn't correct. It is based on OOo3.3, but with s

Re: Firware drivers?

2011-02-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma, 08 feb 11, 13:28:51, Arthur Machlas wrote: > That cd with firmware isn't obviously useful, in that, I installed via > DVD 1 and when prompted to insert additional discs it was unable to > read from it. If I wanted to go around my friends and family house and > upgrade their computers, I'd ha

Re: Firware drivers?

2011-02-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma, 08 feb 11, 20:06:54, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 09:09:20 -0800, Mark wrote: > > > So given that info, on systems that already have "contrib non-free" in > > /etc/apt/sources.list with the appropriate firmware installed and > > working, will the "firmware-linux" metapackage load t

NFS client performance slow with ls

2011-02-08 Thread owen
Hi all, I've come across a problem with either Debian or recent Linux kernels with NFS that I am really confused by. I have an NFS server (Debian Squeeze) exporting to a large number of users. While setting up a new computer (Squeeze) as an NFS client, I noticed that it was taking ~10 seconds

Multimedia Lenny is History!

2011-02-08 Thread freeman
As of Monday: http://debian-multimedia.org/ -- Kind Regards, Freeman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110208221922.GA9773@Europa.office

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Celejar wrote: > I'm curious - everyone has always seemed to love ThinkPads, but I've > never understood what exactly makes them so popular. I'm not > disagreeing or challenging - I've never used one, and I just want to > understand why everyone swears by them. The IBM ThinkPads were always solid

Re: Squeeze. After Trinity istall no boot background picture

2011-02-08 Thread deloptes
Curt Howland wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Saturday 05 February 2011, was heard to > say: >> Years before I've used to be a KDE 3 user. KDE 4 experiments are >> not in my favorites, so after couple of years with Debian GNOME >> (Lenny mostly), I have decided to

Re: skip fsck when booting on battery?

2011-02-08 Thread Freeman
On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 08:59:15PM +0100, Steven wrote: > An interesting view, I'll keep it in mind when/if reinstalling the > laptop, it has 2 physical drives, each 160 GB. Only the first one is > slightly less due to a swap partition. Currently the whole disk is used > for /, and the second one i

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-08 Thread Allan Wind
On 2011-02-08T15:23:29, Celejar wrote: > I'm curious - everyone has always seemed to love ThinkPads, but I've > never understood what exactly makes them so popular. I'm not > disagreeing or challenging - I've never used one, and I just want to > understand why everyone swears by them. The T and Z

Re: Firware drivers?

2011-02-08 Thread Mark
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Camaleón wrote: > > [...] > > Anyway, I think that none of the currently installed firmwares should be > removed or marked to be removed when upgrading. That's is something, > that, in the event it happens, I would report to the BTS. > Thank you Camaleón, I was w

Fwd: error on configuration of lyx

2011-02-08 Thread abdelkader belahcene
Hi every body I tried to compile the last version of lyx2 ( beta), I always got the error : * The following problems have been detected by configure. Please check the messages below before running 'make'. (see the section 'Problems' in the INSTALL file) ** qt 4 library not found ! I

Re: docx, openoffice, squeeze

2011-02-08 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 20:12:32 +, Lisi wrote: > On Tuesday 08 February 2011 19:33:17 Ron Johnson wrote: >> LibreOffice is nothing more than the renamed OOo v3.3. > > No, Ron, that isn't correct. It is based on OOo3.3, but with some > additions, including the reading of docx. > > The version o

This is not SPAM

2011-02-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
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Re: bleeding edge kernels misidentify my Broadcom BCM4401-B0

2011-02-08 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-02-08 21:19 +0100, Celejar wrote: > Recently, while using bleeding edge kernels (built from git pulls of > vanillas sources from kernel.org), my Broadcom BCM4401-B0 Ethernet > card, normally driven by the b44 driver, has stopped working. Poking > around, I discovered that the card is no l

Re: Sticking with Lenny

2011-02-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20110208174911.GT6759@think.homelan>, Andrei Popescu wrote: >you can run > >aptitude search ~S~i~Astable > >to get the list of packages from stable/squeeze. Depends. The argument of ~A ("stable" in this case) is used as a regular expression. That regular expression also matches packages

Installing Debian on USB sticks.

2011-02-08 Thread James Allsopp
Hi, Recently I placed the netinst i386 debian installer on an old USB stick using: zcat boot.img.gz > /dev/sdc and I've installed one machine using it. However yesterday I was trying to install debian itself on a USB stick and the installer found it could connect to a couple of the mirrors but tha

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-08 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 8 Feb 2011 09:06:28 -1000 Joel Roth wrote: > On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 12:47:31PM +0100, Peter Beck wrote: > > On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 12:50 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > I would go for a ThinkPad. They might be a bit more expensive, but in > > > my experience it's worth it. > > > > ab

bleeding edge kernels misidentify my Broadcom BCM4401-B0

2011-02-08 Thread Celejar
Hi, Recently, while using bleeding edge kernels (built from git pulls of vanillas sources from kernel.org), my Broadcom BCM4401-B0 Ethernet card, normally driven by the b44 driver, has stopped working. Poking around, I discovered that the card is no longer correctly identified; it now shows up (w

Re: docx, openoffice, squeeze

2011-02-08 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 08 February 2011 19:33:17 Ron Johnson wrote: > LibreOffice is nothing more than the renamed OOo v3.3. No, Ron, that isn't correct. It is based on OOo3.3, but with some additions, including the reading of docx. The version of Open Office packaged in Lenny, 2.4.1, also reads docx - but

Re: Firware drivers?

2011-02-08 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 09:09:20 -0800, Mark wrote: > On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 7:36 AM, Camaleón wrote: > >> On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 14:51:00 +0100, Geronimo wrote: >> >> (...) >> >> > Now its time, to become more pragmatic, which means, debian should >> > offer installation media, that include non-free fi

Re: docx, openoffice, squeeze

2011-02-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/08/2011 01:02 PM, Andreas Goesele wrote: [snip] Somebody recommended libreoffice to me: I installed it, and it works fine. If I don't find a solution for openoffice (any suggestion?) I might switch. LibreOffice is nothing more than the renamed OOo v3.3. -- "The normal condition of man

Gnome-panel uses 100% CPU after upgrade

2011-02-08 Thread Peter Bonucci
I just upgraded from Lenny to Squeeze. The installation when fine except that I had to load the ethernet firmware manually. I am using Gnome for the desktop. When I log into the computer, the top menu panel flickers constantly and does not display "Applications / Places / System". This rend

Re: Firware drivers?

2011-02-08 Thread Arthur Machlas
That cd with firmware isn't obviously useful, in that, I installed via DVD 1 and when prompted to insert additional discs it was unable to read from it. If I wanted to go around my friends and family house and upgrade their computers, I'd have to basically integrate all firmwares into a custom dvd

Re: Firware drivers?

2011-02-08 Thread Tixy
On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 14:51 +0100, Geronimo wrote: > Now its time, to become more pragmatic, which means, debian should offer > installation media, that include non-free firmware ... > That installation media should be marked as non-free, but I think, it is > vital > to have it. > > Many peop

Re: Problems upgrading GRUB to GRUB2 while upgrading to Squeeze from Lenny

2011-02-08 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 9:56 PM, Markus Viitamäki wrote: > On 6 February 2011 03:21, Tom H wrote: >> >> grub-pc doesn't seem to like your hardware RAID. >> >> Does "grub-mkdevicemap --verbose --no-floppy" give a better clue to >> what's failing? > > Sadly no. As it does not say anything more than

Re: docx, openoffice, squeeze

2011-02-08 Thread Andreas Goesele
Greg Madden writes: > On Monday 07 February 2011 04:28:39 pm Andreas Goesele wrote: >> Rene Engelhard writes: >> > Forget odf-converter and use what is in Go-OO 3.2.1 properly (that's >> > what we ship)? >> >> Does that mean that openoffice as shipped with squeeze should be able to >> open docx-

Re: xfce switch user

2011-02-08 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2011 08 Feb 12:24 -0600, Paul Cartwright wrote: > I have a laptop that has Squeeze on it. I have xfce running, but it > doesn't have switch user. I saw the xfswitch-plugin & installed it, > and I'm running gdm, but I don't see a menu item for switching > users. is there some magix to make this

[OT]Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-08 Thread Simon Hollenbach
> Not kidding, is labtop a real word? As for being a member of the words listed in an English dictionary I'd state no. It is a misspelled form of laptop, I blindly guess. As for 'valid' word: you cannot create invalid words out of a (valid) combo of valid chars. 'Gans' is such a word, just as 'q

Re: weired problem around grub2

2011-02-08 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 1:53 AM, Geronimo wrote: > > The point is, I have an external SATA-controller and disks change order too > much times. That means, I don't have reliable device order. > > So I put a label on each vital partition and mount them by using the label in > fstab. Works fine so far

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-08 Thread Joel Roth
On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 12:47:31PM +0100, Peter Beck wrote: > On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 12:50 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > I would go for a ThinkPad. They might be a bit more expensive, but in > > my experience it's worth it. > > absolutely. I was (and still am) using a T42p and now I have a X301

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma, 08 feb 11, 10:51:12, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > hamed hosseini wrote: > >i want buy labtop,tell me best labtop for debian os? > >900$-1300$ > >"my choice is lenovo labtop" > > > Not kidding, is labtop a real word? Does this count? http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=labtop Regards

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-08 Thread Jimmy Johnson
hamed hosseini wrote: i want buy labtop,tell me best labtop for debian os? 900$-1300$ "my choice is lenovo labtop" Not kidding, is labtop a real word? -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Wheezy - AMD64 - EXT4 at sda13 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.d

Re: Skype

2011-02-08 Thread Simon Brandmair
Hi, On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 11:20:02 +0100 Raffaele Morelli wrote: > I wonder if anyone of you is currently using skype on debian amd64 and > which app are you using. I am successfully running the Ubuntu 8.10+ 64-bit version on debian squeeze 64bit. Cheers, Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

Re: docx, openoffice, squeeze

2011-02-08 Thread Andreas Goesele
Greg Madden writes: > On Monday 07 February 2011 04:28:39 pm Andreas Goesele wrote: >> Rene Engelhard writes: >> > Forget odf-converter and use what is in Go-OO 3.2.1 properly (that's >> > what we ship)? >> >> Does that mean that openoffice as shipped with squeeze should be able to >> open docx-

Re: sid: upgrade wants to remove xserver packages

2011-02-08 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Doing a dist-upgrade in Sid this morning wants to remove all xserver packages. Wait a bit? Hugo Well, it don't take Guru to tell you that's not a good idea, their just separating the Men from the Boy's. ;-) -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Wheezy - AMD64 - EXT4 at sda1

Re: Possible bug in nfs-common (Lenny != Squeeze)?

2011-02-08 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Mario Kleinsasser wrote: > > Currently I am facing the following problem. At work site we have an IBM > mainframe (i6OS). We are using this mainframe as NFS server to share data > between both worlds. > Since the mainframe NFS supports v.4 we are using it because it

Re: Squeeze fdisk and cfdisk changed Correction

2011-02-08 Thread T o n g
On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 12:29:38 -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > This problem was found on only 1 of 3 installs of Squeeze. > > I am now reinstalling the faulty system. Do you still remember what partition tool that you used (that get you into this)? I found whenever I use tools from windows, I get suc

Re: Firware drivers?

2011-02-08 Thread consul tores
2011/2/8 Geronimo : > Hello, >> The release notes are a hand-holding document.  If something is important >> enough to be a pitfall during the upgrade process, it needs to be described >> in the *upgrade* section of the release notes.  "implied" in the "what's >> new" doesn't cut it. > > Sorry, but

Possible bug in nfs-common (Lenny != Squeeze)?

2011-02-08 Thread Mario Kleinsasser
Hello List! Currently I am facing the following problem. At work site we have an IBM mainframe (i6OS). We are using this mainframe as NFS server to share data between both worlds. Since the mainframe NFS supports v.4 we are using it because it is much easier to handle through firewalls (single por

Re: weired problem around grub2

2011-02-08 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 16:45:15 +0100, Geronimo wrote: > Hello, > > Camaleón wrote: >> Well, GRUB2 is having problems to boot from you current cloned >> partition but is fine installed under a brand-new one. Having a small >> dedicated "/ boot" partition will solve the issue (I hope!) and you can >>

Re: Configuring QLogic QLA4010c on Debian on Sparc

2011-02-08 Thread RR
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Thoroughly read the Debian iSCSI HBA documentation, specifically the > sections > relating to the QLA4xxx series adapters. > > -- > Stan > Thanks Stan, will have a look and see what I can find. Just the confidence with which you say it, I'm a

Re: Sticking with Lenny

2011-02-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma, 08 feb 11, 15:22:08, Bernard wrote: > > My 'sources.list' has a few calls for 'stable', and some calls for > 'lenny'. How am I to know for sure whether or not I have already > installed packages from Squeeze ? Last package I installed was > 'xine-ui' and, not later than 2-3 days ago, I have

xfce switch user

2011-02-08 Thread Paul Cartwright
I have a laptop that has Squeeze on it. I have xfce running, but it doesn't have switch user. I saw the xfswitch-plugin & installed it, and I'm running gdm, but I don't see a menu item for switching users. is there some magix to make this happen?? -- Paul Cartwright -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Squeeze fdisk and cfdisk changed

2011-02-08 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 11:21:29 -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: >After the upgrade to Squeeze I found that cfdisk no longer displays > the disk Labels and fdisk now shows that all my partitions have > problems. (...) Try with "fdisk -lc", I think that error is just "cosmetic". As per cfdisk and label

Squeeze fdisk and cfdisk changed Correction

2011-02-08 Thread Wayne Topa
Hi Gang < After the upgrade to Squeeze I found that cfdisk no longer displays To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d517d82.1010...@gmail.com

Re: Firware drivers?

2011-02-08 Thread Mark
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 7:36 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 14:51:00 +0100, Geronimo wrote: > > (...) > > > Now its time, to become more pragmatic, which means, debian should offer > > installation media, that include non-free firmware ... That installation > > media should be marked as

Re: which version for intel chipset 64bit

2011-02-08 Thread Jerome BENOIT
On 08/02/11 16:12, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Jerome BENOIT put forth on 2/8/2011 8:04 AM: who does play with Itanium box ? expert or newbie ? Old Itanium boxen are often sold on Ebay very cheap, same with SPARC, etc, and discarded by universities, etc. These are what some newbies play with. You

Re: Pump, dhchp, dns and dnsmasq

2011-02-08 Thread T o n g
On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 09:12:09 +, Tixy wrote: >> > ;; ANSWER SECTION: >> > maroon. 0 IN A 127.0.0.1 >> > >> > ;; Query time: 0 msec >> > ;; SERVER: 192.168.0.100#53(192.168.0.100) ;; WHEN: Sun Feb 6 >> > 23:20:41 2011 >> > ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 40 >> >> This is t

Re: Firware drivers?

2011-02-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma, 08 feb 11, 08:33:50, John Hasler wrote: > Gero writes: > > Now its time, to become more pragmatic, which means, debian should > > offer installation media, that include non-free firmware ... > > Not going to happen. You may argue if 'unofficial' means Debian is offering the media or not,

Squeeze fdisk and cfdisk changed

2011-02-08 Thread Wayne Topa
Hi Gang After the upgrade to Squeeze I found that cfdisk no longer displays the disk Labels and fdisk now shows that all my partitions have problems. This was not the case before the upgrade and does not occur on testing on (sda5) Anyone else seeing this?? Disk /dev/sda: 160 GB, 160039272

Re: Firware drivers?

2011-02-08 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, John Hasler wrote: Gero writes: Now its time, to become more pragmatic, which means, debian should offer installation media, that include non-free firmware ... Not going to happen. It _has_ happened, but they are "unofficial" ISO files [0]. I actually use a script [1], since slightly m

Re: PHP and memory_limit

2011-02-08 Thread Jonas Mixter
Hi Stan! Thank you for your answer. Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 4 bytes) in /Users/jonas/mem_test on line 20 Looks like you have a problem with OSX as well. Your test failed at allocating 40 KB when 128 MB was available. So, it's not fai

Re: weired problem around grub2

2011-02-08 Thread Geronimo
Hello, Camaleón wrote: > Well, GRUB2 is having problems to boot from you current cloned partition > but is fine installed under a brand-new one. Having a small dedicated "/ > boot" partition will solve the issue (I hope!) and you can then use the > remainder space for other OSes :-) Just to let y

Re: Firware drivers?

2011-02-08 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 14:51:00 +0100, Geronimo wrote: (...) > Now its time, to become more pragmatic, which means, debian should offer > installation media, that include non-free firmware ... That installation > media should be marked as non-free, but I think, it is vital to have it. I'm afraid yo

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2011-02-08 Thread T o n g
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Re: which version for intel chipset 64bit

2011-02-08 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Camaleón put forth on 2/8/2011 8:20 AM: > I'll give you a (virtual) beer if the OP has an Itanium box. It's happened at least twice in two years on this list that an OP was told to use AMD64 when he had an Itanium box, simply because the OP asked without providing details, as in this case, and wa

Re: which version for intel chipset 64bit

2011-02-08 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Jerome BENOIT put forth on 2/8/2011 8:04 AM: > who does play with Itanium box ? > expert or newbie ? Old Itanium boxen are often sold on Ebay very cheap, same with SPARC, etc, and discarded by universities, etc. These are what some newbies play with. You never know for sure if the OP doesn't sta

Re: which version for intel chipset 64bit

2011-02-08 Thread Darac Marjal
On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 07:53:23AM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Camaleón put forth on 2/8/2011 4:55 AM: > > On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 11:34:33 +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > > >> On 08/02/11 11:30, hamed hosseini wrote: > > > >>> which version for intel chipset 64bit? > > > > (...) > > > >> amd64 >

Re: Sticking with Lenny

2011-02-08 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 15:22:08 +0100, Bernard wrote: > I feel quite embarrassed in reading this above. I am still on Lenny, and > wishes to remain that way for as long as possible, hopefully until I buy > a new computer. > > My 'sources.list' has a few calls for 'stable', and some calls for > 'lenn

Re: Sticking with Lenny

2011-02-08 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Bernard schreef: Dave Sherohman wrote: Should I be specifying lenny instead of stable, ... I feel quite embarrassed in reading this above. I am still on Lenny, and wishes to remain that way for as long as possible, hopefully until I buy a new computer. Don't try for longer than a y

Re: Firware drivers?

2011-02-08 Thread John Hasler
Gero writes: > Now its time, to become more pragmatic, which means, debian should > offer installation media, that include non-free firmware ... Not going to happen. > That installation media should be marked as non-free, but I think, it > is vital to have it. So produce it. What are you waitin

Re: PHP and memory_limit

2011-02-08 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Jonas Mixter put forth on 2/8/2011 6:27 AM: > Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to > allocate > 4 bytes) in /Users/jonas/mem_test on line 20 Looks like you have a problem with OSX as well. Your test failed at allocating 40 KB when 128 MB was available. So

Re: exim4-config fails to configure on install

2011-02-08 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 14:12:06 +0100, Joan Marc Riera Duocastella wrote: > i've tried to report the bug using reportbug but since the bug involves > the mail command I can not send it. I'm going to paste it here. (...) You can report the bug "manually": http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting.en.htm

Re: Sticking with Lenny

2011-02-08 Thread Bernard
Dave Sherohman wrote: Should I be specifying lenny instead of stable, Yes, if you want to stay on lenny until further notice. Personally, I always use the version names, so I'm not 100% certain that it's still around, but I believe you could also use old-stable to continue tracking

Re: which version for intel chipset 64bit

2011-02-08 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 07:53:23 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Camaleón put forth on 2/8/2011 4:55 AM: >> On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 11:34:33 +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: >> >>> On 08/02/11 11:30, hamed hosseini wrote: >> which version for intel chipset 64bit? >> >> (...) >> >>> amd64 >> >> Or i386,

Re: sid: upgrade wants to remove xserver packages

2011-02-08 Thread Darac Marjal
On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 07:40:31PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-02-07 19:33 +0100, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > The problem for me is that dist-upgrade wants to install > > libdrm-nouveau1, which blasts nvidia-glx. > > No, nvidia-glx is broken by the xserver-xorg-core upgrade. I installed xo

Re: single machine, different IP addresses

2011-02-08 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 13:47:00 +, T o n g wrote: > On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 13:14:39 +, T o n g wrote: > >>> "ip" tool settings will lost after computer restarts unless you make >>> an script that sets the data on every network reboot... I think IP >>> alias (virtual interface) is the way to go.

Re: Server freezing under heavy cpu / disk / network load

2011-02-08 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Davide Mirtillo put forth on 2/8/2011 5:25 AM: > I am currently running squeeze 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem. The machine has Why run the 32bit distro with the bigmem kernel on an AMD64 box? And why run the bigmem kernel on a machine with only 1 GB RAM? The bigmem kernel is only needed for PAE, which me

Re: single machine, different IP addresses

2011-02-08 Thread Robert Grimm
Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 11:27:27 +0100, Artur Frydel wrote: >> IMO the better choice is to use ip tool. For example; >> ip a a 192.168.0.1/24 dev eth0 > "ip" tool settings will lost after computer restarts unless you make an > script that sets the data on every network reboot... I

Re: which version for intel chipset 64bit

2011-02-08 Thread Jerome BENOIT
who does play with Itanium box ? expert or newbie ? On 08/02/11 14:53, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Camaleón put forth on 2/8/2011 4:55 AM: On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 11:34:33 +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: On 08/02/11 11:30, hamed hosseini wrote: which version for intel chipset 64bit? (...) amd64 Or

Re: which version for intel chipset 64bit

2011-02-08 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Camaleón put forth on 2/8/2011 4:55 AM: > On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 11:34:33 +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > >> On 08/02/11 11:30, hamed hosseini wrote: > >>> which version for intel chipset 64bit? > > (...) > >> amd64 > > Or i386, that's up to the user ;-) Neither of these is correct if he has an It

Re: Firware drivers?

2011-02-08 Thread Geronimo
Hello, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring > them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond > where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot > Henrique Holschuh u made my day :D > The release notes ar

Re: single machine, different IP addresses

2011-02-08 Thread T o n g
On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 13:14:39 +, T o n g wrote: > Is it possible to make a single machine having/answering to > different IP addresses (I'm using DNSmasq as the dns server)? > You can use a virtual interface: ifconfig eth0:0 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 >>

exim4-config fails to configure on install

2011-02-08 Thread Joan Marc Riera Duocastella
Hi, i've tried to report the bug using reportbug but since the bug involves the mail command I can not send it. I'm going to paste it here. Hope it helps. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-En

Re: Firware drivers?

2011-02-08 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 08 Feb 2011, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Mark a écrit : > > I have read the Squeeze Release Notes, here is what it says about > > non-free firmware. So the RTFM responses can stop now... > > > > 2.1.2. Firmware moved to the non-free section > > > > Some drivers include

Re: single machine, different IP addresses

2011-02-08 Thread T o n g
On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 10:58:55 +, Camaleón wrote: Is it possible to make a single machine having/answering to different IP addresses (I'm using DNSmasq as the dns server)? >>> You can use a virtual interface: >>> >>> ifconfig eth0:0 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 >>> >> IMO t

Re: Sticking with Lenny

2011-02-08 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 08/02/11 11:59, Dave Sherohman wrote: On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 11:27:55AM +, Tony van der Hoff wrote: deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free ... What happens in this case? Presumably updates will be taken from the new stable repository? Correct. Should I

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